Auditorium Ivan Pictet B
Maison de la paix, Geneva

Organised by the department of Anthropology and Sociology of Development, the Fondation Braillard Architectes and the Laboratory of Urbanism (Lab-U) at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, under the auspices of the United Nations Environment Programme.

“We need to return to the question of the spatial structure of the city… to promote democracy, and to eliminate spatial inequalities". Bernardo Secchi, ‘La città dei ricchi e la città dei poveri’.

The Bernardo Secchi Working Seminar aims to foster dialogue between scholars, professionals and stakeholders on the relations between social equality/inequality, ecological sustainability and the spatial attributes of the urban areas, according to three questions:

• Sustainable and inclusive economy: how does its implementation interact with the built realm?
• Environmentally responsible government: how can architectural and urban space become one of its strategic fields of exercise?
• Urban Age and planetary equilibrium: how can we orient emerging architectural, urban and landscape strategies for an innovative management of resources?

Organising committee

• Panos Mantziaras, Fondation Braillard Architectes
• Isabelle Milbert, Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement, The Graduate Institute
• Paola Viganò, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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